2026-07-16

The 6 best transatlantic cruises to book in 2026

From Cunard's Queen Mary 2 formal crossings between New York and Southampton to a 53-day pole-to-pole odyssey aboard Princess Cruises [...]

2026-07-16

How AI could unleash a flood of zero-day vulnerabilities

CrowdStrike president Mike Sentonas warns that frontier models may sharply reduce the time between a software flaw’s discovery and its exploitation, forcing companies to rethink how they manage cyber risk. [...]

2026-07-16

For Apple to make its AI era succeed, it has to get back to its roots

Apple used to make things people couldn’t live without. For its AI to do that, hardware, software, and design need to all be working together to solve the same problem. [...]

2026-07-16

Astronomers Have Found a Sugar Molecule in Deep Space for the First Time Ever

Researchers identified traces of erythrulose, a monosaccharide, thousands of light-years away. [...]

2026-07-16

The Oversight Board says leading AI models might be restricting free expression

The group is trying to extend its influence beyond Meta. [...]

2026-07-16

It's Official: OnePlus Is Dead. Long Live Oppo

"Never settle" takes on a whole new meaning, as the once-maverick phone-maker retreats from the US and Europe. [...]

2026-07-16

I Used Every OnePlus Phone I Could Get My Hands On. These Were My Favorites

Now that the company has closed in Europe and the US, I've looked back at my top picks from OnePlus' phones, wearables and foldables. [...]

2026-07-16

Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, a 975B parameter model that leads US labs but trails China

Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, a multimodal open-weights model with 975 billion parameters. It leads U.S. open-weights models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, though top Chinese open models still beat it on some tasks. Pricing starts at $1.87 per million input tokens, and Thinking Machines is pitching Inkling as a base for fine- [...]

2026-07-16

McIntosh’s new AV processor can handle 9.4.4 channels of Dolby Atmos and 7x 4K 120Hz HDMI ports for ‘today’s most advanced home cinema systems’ – but you’ll need to add your own amps for all those speakers…

The McIntosh MX124 is a very flexible AV processor with 17 audio channels and seven 8K HDMI inputs [...]